Miami Immigration Blog

Posted By Steve Goldstein || 29-Mar-2015

The United States Department of Justice announced earlier this week that over 100,000 undocumented individuals had been granted a three year reprieve from removal or deportation under an expansion of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. These individuals fall under a specific category of young immigrants who were brought into the United States unlawfully when they were ...

Posted By Steve Goldstein || 28-Mar-2015

Despite the outcry against the current immigration policy, the fact that at least 7,706 undocumented children from Central American countries have been ordered “ removed ” or “ deported ” by a Federal Immigration Judge without their day in court, speaks volumes about the current immigration system. This increased peak in court decisions follows the increase in children and ...

Posted By Steve Goldstein || 27-Mar-2015

Last summer, due to the surge in undocumented women and children crossing the border from Mexico in to the United States, the U.S. Immigration Courts have been inundated with hundreds of thousands of non-criminal cases that were filed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These cases have been fast-tracked or placed on what is referred to as a “rocket docket.” Unfortunately, ...

Posted By Steve Goldstein || 26-Mar-2015

Republican lawmakers determined to counter President Barack Obama on immigration want to advance solutions of their own, starting with a border security bill and perhaps moving on to tackle other aspects. It's a goal House Republicans have tried and failed to achieve for the past two years, even as the Senate passed a comprehensive, bipartisan bill that ultimately died because of inaction in ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 1-Mar-2015

The new changes in diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba that President Obama have enacted are being met with some trepidation by many Cuban nationals who are living in the United States, many in the south Florida area. Prior to the change in these relations, Cubans who had been convicted of a criminal offense in the United States could not, for the most part, be deported to ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 15-Feb-2015

On Saturday, Iowa congressman Steve King, an infamously anti-immigration advocate, hosted a political event for Republican conservative presidential hopefuls. Missing from this roster of potential presidential contenders was Jeb Bush. In the past Congressman King has made disparaging and pejorative remarks towards undocumented individuals. His personal verbal attacks have made him a leader for ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 14-Feb-2015

Not long after the mid-term elections which put Republicans in control of the House, a vote took place that passed amendments which would undermine President Obamas plans for immigration. The president's most recent immigration policy included protecting undocumented individuals who have children born in the United States and in addition are from any criminal history. This new policy was ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 11-Feb-2015

Last summer, due to the surge in undocumented women and children crossing the border from Mexico in to the United States, the U.S. Immigration Courts have been inundated with hundreds of thousands of non-criminal cases that were filed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These cases have been fast-tracked or placed on what is referred to as a "rocket docket." Unfortunately, many ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 10-Feb-2015

The Executive Action regarding immigration reform, which President Obama announced last month is not receiving support by the majority of the American public. Not surprisingly, a new Gallup poll shows that Americans who do not support the law number at 51 percent of people polled, while those who are in favor of the new Executive Action number at 41 percent. Among Hispanics polled, the overall ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 19-Dec-2014

However, the White House continues to move forward and expressed further explanation on the new Executive Action regarding immigration reform and made some important points for the public to understand. One of the first concerns is that individuals make educated choices about who can help them with the application process. They warn against the use of "notaries", who notoriously have ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 18-Dec-2014

The number of states who have joined the lawsuit against President Obama has risen to 24. That means that half of the states in the United States have decided that they believe that the Executive Action towards immigration reform that the President has taken, is unlawful. These states include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 17-Dec-2014

President Obama announced earlier today that he promised to end the way the United States currently deals with the county of Cuba, calling it "outdated." In this news breaking declaration, he stated that he hopes to mend relations with the country, which have been halted for five decades now. Currently, trade and travel to Cuba is extremely restricted, but this may end if the changes ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 5-Dec-2014

With the new and exciting laws for undocumented individuals that President Obama announced last month, comes a warning for unsuspecting families who may be headed for sham and unethical "notarios." It is vital that anyone seeking to benefit from the new laws that could potentially grant status, must consult with a reputable and well established immigration attorney. Only that way the ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 4-Dec-2014

granted lawful status. It also includes the expansion of certain visas to individuals in specialized high tech areas who wish to immigrate to the United States. Millions of people would be effected from this relief from deportation or removal. Instead of an "amnesty", the President issued an executive directive to the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 20-Nov-2014

The Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will be closing an immigration facility in Artesia, New Mexico. This particular facility is a center that specializes in detention of women and children of undocumented individuals and families. The announcement should be perceived as a positive step on the immigration front for supporters of the rights of undocumented individuals. ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 18-Nov-2014

Eighth-grade students at the Donna Klein School in Boca Raton experienced a unique learning opportunity when Mrs. Frieda Goldstein, mother of eighth-grader Jacob Goldstein and a Miami immigration attorney, met with the class as enrichment to their study of their Humanities Immigration Unit. Mrs. Goldstein addressed such topics as the early waves of immigration to the United States, the ...

Posted By Pozo Goldstein, LLP || 17-Nov-2014

The President continued to proceed with his plan to make some changes in regards to undocumented individuals present in the country. President Obama criticized Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner for refusing to take up a bipartisan immigration reform bill that was presented by the United States Senate. The President stated that he had warned Speaker Boehner that if he would not ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 9-Nov-2014

The hot topic up for debate currently is whether President Obama as the legal authority to take action on the Immigration Reform on his own. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in 2012 that the president of the United States has the authority to exercise prosecutorial discretion in the area of immigration. Despite that, Fox News, a Republic based entity which openly criticizes President ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 7-Nov-2014

The Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review is the agency that employs the nation's Immigration Judges and the Los Angeles Immigration Court is one of the largest in the country. A new initiative has been put into place in the Immigration Courtroom that intends to speed up the time for these newly arrived, and mostly unaccompanied minors to appear before the Immigration ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 6-Nov-2014

The application for United States citizenship or N-400 is a document designed to ask many questions that relate to national security and the applicant's past associations and activities. It was created that way with the intention of allowing the Department of Homeland Security to determine if an applicant is eligible for United States Citizenship. Rasmieh Odeh, a naturalized United States ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 5-Nov-2014

The mid-term elections that took place yesterday were a landslide for the Republican Party in most parts of the country. This is not good news for supporters of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform, whose political leanings tend to be Democratic. The Republican Party has articulated its opposition to any Immigration Policy that President Obama intends to promulgate. A spokesperson for the Republican ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 29-Oct-2014

The Republic of Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with four-fifths of its population in abject poverty and three-fifths of the population unemployed or under-employed. Early next year, many Haitian citizens will finally enjoy a benefit bestowed to many individuals, slated to leave the country to join their family in the United States. Many of these families previously ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 28-Oct-2014

The first wave of immigration into the United States occurred as far back as the 1880s to the 1920s. This wave of immigrants was by fueled turmoil, poverty and war in Europe and aided by the creation of Ellis Island in New York's Liberty Harbor. The second wave, which began in the 1970s are mostly middle class and immigrated to the United States for different reasons. For the most part, these ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 27-Oct-2014

In Los Angeles, California this week, former Immigration Officer Mai Nhu Nguyen was sentenced to 2 ½ years in federal prison for a plea of guilty she made earlier this year to accepting bribes in favor of granting immigration benefits to people who appeared before in her capacity as an Immigration Officer. Before her scam was uncovered, Ms. Nguyen, was employed by the Department of Homeland ...

Posted By Florida Immigration Lawyer || 26-Oct-2014

Colorado recently became the 11 th state to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license without providing information regarding their immigration status in the United States and facing the risk of removal proceedings. For most individuals who do not have legal status, this benefit is a golden opportunity. It enables them to drive their children to school, go to the grocery store ...

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